The Language of Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Horobin, Simon.

Title
The Language of Chaucer.

Published
In Laurel J. Brinton and Alexander Bergs, eds. Middle English. The History of English, no. 3. (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 293-305.

Description
Addresses the status of Chaucer's language in the development of a standard written English, explores grammatical differences between his dialect and "present-day" English, and clarifies the difficulties of understanding the innovativeness of his lexicon in light of the complications of borrowings from French. Describes tools available for further study of these aspects of Chaucer's language.

Contributor
Brinton, Laurel J., ed.
Bergs, Alexander, ed.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies